Predictions from the Past That Were Eerily Right or Hilariously Wrong (opens in new tab)

A movie star becoming president? That'll never happen! Well, I was just a kid in Kentucky at the time, and didn't even know Reagan was already the governor of California. But no one could have known that exactly 20 years later, the Berlin Wall would indeed fall. This is just one of many pop culture plots or jokes that accurately predicted the future way back in the past. No one remembers the sitcom Second Chance because it didn't last long, but they got the year of Gadhafi's death right- only...